Associate Director, Outcomes Research

Job Description

The Position

The role of Associate Director, Dermatology Outcomes Research Epidemiology and Economics will report to the headquarters Director of Medical Affairs Outcomes Research.

Focusing on Dermatology, in this role, you will be responsible for establishing/continuing economic Modelling research programs that include developing, design and delivering health economic modelling projects. The role is responsible for the health economic model development and epidemiology involving observational studies for Dermatological products and commercialized projects across the portfolio at Organon. This role will provide expertise on health economics and decision science involved in assessment across functional areas and provide expertise in ensuring economic models communicated to all external stake holders including Health Technology Assessment (HTA) bodies and payer organizations are methodologically robust and aligned with medical priorities. Developing and implementing patient-centred endpoints strategies, working with regulatory, Value Strategy Assessment (VSA’s) and contracting. The role is responsible for evaluating the Clinical and Economic models that support the utilization of our products.

Responsibilities

• Create studies that provide information on background rate of adverse events in specific populations, characteristics of patients who take our products, how the products are being used and the design of studies to assess associations between exposure to our drugs and safety outcomes of interest.

• Assess customer needs, partner with internal and external stakeholders and design and conduct appropriate and diverse types of outcomes research studies and develop real world evidence (e.g., retrospective observational studies, meta-analyses)

• Apply epidemiologic methods to design/implement pharmacoepidemiology, comparative effectiveness, drug safety and other research studies.

• Partner with CROs (contract research organizations) and scientific experts to develop/adapt predictive, epi models in one or more programming technologies, e.g., Excel or Excel Visual Basic, Mathematica, R) compliant with best-practice modelling standards and as deemed appropriate to inform decisions across the product lifecycle.

• Partner and engage with appropriate stakeholders for local adaptations of the models and analyses.

• Synthesize all value messages to develop value evidence strategy and communicate effectively to internal and external stakeholders.

• Effectively engage with relevant audiences (scientific, patients, practitioners, payers, and other stakeholders) results of outcomes research studies and epidemiology studies with appropriate field partners

• Promote policy development at the country, regional, and global level as it applies to the company’s products.

• Leverage real world evidence and epi models to address affordability issues.

Customer, Market, and Competitor Insights

• Develop an understanding of science, medicine, clinical practice, and therapeutic areas to address customer needs, beliefs and goals and understand market dynamics, unmet medical needs, competitor landscape and trends with the goal of improving overall business and patient outcomes.

• Develop clear assessment of evidence needs for demonstrating appropriate cost-effectiveness, economic consequences, support of Value based contracting and other projections.

• Ensure methodological rigor in health economic studies for informing economic models.

• Mentor and support Outcomes Researchers in conduct of health economic studies.

• Development and presentation of research abstracts, posters, and manuscripts

• Benchmarking, value, and risk associated with Value based contracting.

 Required Education, Experience and Skills

• PhD in health services research required from a recognized University.

• Acceptable experience with real-world data/epi and safety experience: at least one to th